The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-30

her and holding her wealth of hair twisted


round forehnger.
1T seems 10 me like the way Andromeda
has her hair dressed" said nv friend.
Then the hair ixer copied the antique style or
the photograph. First she twisted in a switch
very tightly with Marias hair. the fret turn made
loosely, and she kept winding the mass next the
much admired at present Then she laid across
Marias parian brow a row of short curls. Above
this went finger puff that was pinned on top
and fiuffed out each side; next she tucked in two
short stumpy curls on the under side of the
handle. half way between the end and the head.
You want a peplum and cestus, draped
toga and a Roman forum to GO with that head
/ remarked.
'Ben has a toga that he spoke Marc Antony's
speech in, but I'd look a guy in a dress cut that
way" said the matter-of-fact Maria Il know
women are going to wear antique styles, togas
and forums like Mary Anderson in Parthenia
but know / could never get around in draper
ies. so I shall only follow the fashion in hair"
Then Maria crowned her mythologically-c con
structed head with felt sailor hat. turned M
en- the back. and trimmed with fight of stiff
ribbon bows and brass anchor in front, and
left the house. half ancient and half modern,
but wholly satisfied with her architecture. TO go
to see MRS. Langtry die in "As in Looking-
glass"
You have heard the story Of Mr.. Eddy.
famous Bowery favorite, who. playing certain
criminal character one night. bad to die OF
shot gun wound. just as be had fled away the
bars of his prison and was hanging by q sheet
from the stone walls outside the window Eddy
had removed the bars. and was dangling in mid
air. The officers came on, and levelled their
muskets but nothing went off, for the guns had
but feeling that he must die to end the piece
and get the curtain down, trembled.
struck the stage, rolled over and over to the
foot-liehts. gripped his stomach. eureled. strug-
gled, and eroaned out to account for his sudden
sickness and death: Heavens! / have ewal-
lowed the flel' and then turned over
the fle II Mrs. Lang,ry would only gasp.
"Obl the curtain ring--it is choking me-I die.
of-curtain ring" we should have somo insight
into the matter. But after Airs. Langtry as
Le1a Despard swallows the poison supposed to
be choral, she grips herself and utters green
apple collie yell, rolls about. enaws the seat of q
chair. chews huugrily at a table leg. tears open
the front of her dress. pulls down q window
curtain. walows in it, falls over chair with q
trapdoor hack. to the stage. whore she finally
dies, simple mention OF the curtain ring
would be letting in light this. mysterious
death struggle. Chloral produces a Qniet eleep.
In fact, there is no death but the curtain ring or
the file demise that admits of such antics. Eddy
clearly acknowledged swallowing the file. Lang
try ought to give the curtain ring credit
Relic and msmento friends are having a fine
time this week in the exhibition of Henry Ward
Beecher's books, paintings. engravings, rugs
ceramics and bric-a-brac. They will all be sold
by auction before long. and the fends pay so
cents visit to 60 to the art galleries and pore
over tho treasures. taking notes of such speci
mems in the various Departments they will
want to purchase. These fends are Of all de-
scriptions and both sexes Prominent among
them is the thin-favored young man. with high
cheek bone and spectacles who wears his win
ter before-las overcoat the pockets buging
with newspapers and pamphlets He pays no
attention TO the pottery. and scowls as he stun
bles over a rug; and the paintings are not even
glanced at He husies himself in the large room
where 2. 500 books tioy.1 are placed on shelves
within his reach (rapture!.), and many of them
Mi.h appa:f age and d. LACK lack Of ~ care " per. aper-
feet bliss!!D 1t certainly is odd
that the more evidence q book shows in dust
past owners never read or cared;for it, tho more
highly the antiquarian prizes it. A new binding
strikes horror to his soul. An nstance of this
came peculiarly under my eye while giving
cursory glance at the Beecher collection. Ranged
on an upper shelf in row WAS an elegantly
bound edition OF the Latin historians, essay
lists, poets. and the like There must have been
thirty more volumes in all, and the Danes of
the editors on the calf covers were evidence that
the utmost scholarship and most recent
search had been embodied in the supplementary
notes. The works of Terrence were, of course,
included, comprised in three volumes The
early aged antiquarian glanced with plying con-
tempt at the clean. comfortable books on the top
row, but his eyes lit up with intense delight
he reached out his lean hands and seized dog
cared volume of clumsy shape, bound IN tat
tered half cloth. printed in wretched type on
worse paper. He turned its scar pages with
greedy haste, and noted it in his memoranda as
a desirable addition to his stock 1t was
edition of Terrence a half century old. long
since relegated to the shelf by the process Of
pathological knowledge.
And there young. ladies there-oh yes!
nice, fresh girls, who come in pairs and groups,
and ignore the books, except such broad tones
contain collections of engravings and devote
their ROSY attention to the rugs aud pottery.
One sentiment tai miss want ted much to secure
an elegant Turkish rug upon which she was
sure the venerable preacher had many times
pressed his broad feet while warming himself
before his open FIRE; but she just
that it would take more money than papa would
allow her for a year to come. and what could she
do when the holidays came, to say nothing of
the bon bons, and caramels, and chewing gum
during the less festive seasonsl The youn 2.
ladies not usually expert judges of pottery,
and in their inspection of the they esti
mate their relative desirabity according to the
probable use TO which they were personally put
by Mr.. Beecher. Few of them have any inten-
tion of buying a dollars worth, being drawn to
the galleries altogether from curiosity to sea
what manner of matter Mr. Beecher was fond
Of It JUST bit suggestive that two girls
should pause instant before a picture by Bab-
cock, in which two nude female figures are rep
them should whisper in surprise to the other:
II shouldn't have thought he would have had
that in his house!" But it a good picture,
and showed cultivated taste in the purchaser
CLARA BELLE